Re: horizontal spacing issue with `keyCancellation`

Some days ago I wrote: > Consider this snippet. > > ```tex > cancellationFirst = > \override Score.BreakAlignment.break-align-orders = > #(grob-transformer 'break-align-orders > (lambda (grob orig) >(let ((vec (vector-copy orig)) >

Re: Horizontal spacing for a few measures

Thanks David! I'll put these all in my 'toolbox'. Jerry On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 5:41 PM David Wright wrote: > On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 07:39:10 (-0700), Knute Snortum wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 3:27 PM JxStarks wrote: > > > > > > Thank you! The "page-count = 1" worked for this example, so

Re: Horizontal spacing for a few measures

On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 07:39:10 (-0700), Knute Snortum wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 3:27 PM JxStarks wrote: > > > > Thank you! The "page-count = 1" worked for this example, so I'll keep it in > > my toolbox. > > If I wanted to use the #(set-global-staff-size 19.8), where would I put it? > > I

Re: Horizontal spacing for a few measures

Got it. Thanks! Jerry On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 10:39 AM Knute Snortum wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 3:27 PM JxStarks wrote: > > > > Thank you! The "page-count = 1" worked for this example, so I'll keep it > in my toolbox. > > If I wanted to use the #(set-global-staff-size 19.8), where would

Re: Horizontal spacing for a few measures

On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 3:27 PM JxStarks wrote: > > Thank you! The "page-count = 1" worked for this example, so I'll keep it in > my toolbox. > If I wanted to use the #(set-global-staff-size 19.8), where would I put it? I > tried in the \paper { } section and LP told me it didn't belong there an

Re: Horizontal spacing for a few measures

Thank you! The "page-count = 1" worked for this example, so I'll keep it in my toolbox. If I wanted to use the #(set-global-staff-size 19.8), where would I put it? I tried in the \paper { } section and LP told me it didn't belong there and ignored it. Thanks again for your help. Jerry On Sat, Jun

Re: Horizontal spacing for a few measures

On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 11:24:26 (-0400), JxStarks wrote: > I'm transcribing some hymns for use in my church (because I can make the > text larger), and I've noticed a problem. I like to make the introduction > as \tiny notes, then change to \normalsize for the body of the hymn. When I > first comple

Re: Horizontal spacing per measure?

On Wed, 23 Mar 2022 at 13:41, Molly Preston wrote: > Hello. > > I am wondering if there is any way of changing the horizontal spacing. I > would like the first two measures to have more room than the third measure. > The cross-staff beaming I think needs more room and I am not sure how to do > th

Re: horizontal spacing inside \magnifyMusic

Hello Valentin, This is brilliant !!!. Thank you. >@1: (spacing between aes and d not much improved.) I assumed \tweak extra-spacing-width, tweaked the next note column. But according to your explanation, it tweaks only the space after previous note head, not as note column. >@2: (unable to

Re: horizontal spacing inside \magnifyMusic

Hello Eby, I noticed, you can use extra-spacing-height to increase the size of the „lanes” I talked about. I’ve appended the example. Regards, Valentin Am Samstag, 13. Juni 2020, 07:16:42 CEST schrieb Eby Mani: Many thanks Kieren & Valentin, Have used a mix of \newSpacingSection and \tweak

Re: horizontal spacing inside \magnifyMusic

Hello Eby, Your note about extra-spacing-width is the thing I talked about before. It won’t do the right thing if the note would not vertically collide with the neighboring notes. It doesn’t work with \newSpacingSection because spacing is only taken into account between objects in the same S

Re: horizontal spacing inside \magnifyMusic

Many thanks Kieren & Valentin, Have used a mix of \newSpacingSection and \tweak extra-spacing-width to achieve something close to what is possible with use of "skip". Still it's not perfect(output attached). Using \tweak extra-spacing-width alone only works for the first 2 sections on n32 not

Re: horizontal spacing inside \magnifyMusic

On 6/10/20, Eby Mani wrote: > Is there any way to add horizontal spacing to make music more readable > without using "skip" inside violin section commented in the score ?. Well, you probably can get a slightly better result by inserting \newSpacingSection in a few of these places (and also overri

Re: horizontal spacing inside \magnifyMusic

Hi Kieren, Note that doing it this way has the same problem I explained before if two stems a considerably vertically apart (as we just regulate the horizontal space to the neighboring Note, which is not nescessarily the next note. Regards, Valentin Am Donnerstag, 11. Juni 2020, 20:51:48 CEST

Re: horizontal spacing inside \magnifyMusic

Hi Eby, > I'm looking for to achieve something like the output without using "skips". I > plan to run the midi output thru VST instrument, thus adding skips is a big > no. > The example is achieved using "skip". \version "2.19.83" { c'4 4 \tweak extra-spacing-width #'(-10 . 0) 4 4 } Hope that

Re: horizontal spacing inside \magnifyMusic

Hello Eby, As far as I know Lilypond does not offer an easy, clean way to add spacing between certain notes. If two stems are adjacent, you can specify the spacing of the stems. This does not work if there are no Stems or Stems are too far apart vertically. One hacky way around would be using

Re: horizontal spacing inside \magnifyMusic

Hello Eby, You could do as I’ve done in the appended file. That is basically whenever you need a more loose spacing, you do something like \temporary\override Score.SpacingSpanner.common-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 256) (where the 1/256 can be anything to your liking, using bigger note

Re: Horizontal spacing bug?

On Fri 04 Oct 2019 at 11:15:09 (+0200), Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: > Ok, here's a -- simple -- snippet (I should have start with it, sorry): > > %% > \version "2.19.83" > { s1 cis'4 } > { s1 ais4 } > { s1 fis4 } > { s1 ais''4 } > { s1 cis'''4 } > { s1 eis'''4 } > %% > > So it seems that the LP

Re: Horizontal spacing bug?

Ok, here's a -- simple -- snippet (I should have start with it, sorry): %% \version "2.19.83" { s1 cis'4 } { s1 ais4 } { s1 fis4 } { s1 ais''4 } { s1 cis'''4 } { s1 eis'''4 } %% So it seems that the LP alignment changes after more than two ledger lines (probably because of the accidentals vertica

Re: Horizontal spacing bug?

Hi David, Thanks for your answer. However, I probably badly explained my problem since it has nothing to do with any modern style alignment. Thing is that -- *in situ* -- every measure that begins with an accidental sign offsets the first note, except for this particular measure. Why? There is much

Re: Contemporary bar layout [was Re: Horizontal spacing bug?]

On 2019-10-03 5:49 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote: On 4/10/2019 3:34 am, Aaron Hill wrote: How standardized is this so-called "modernist" music? Not in any way at all. There's no ISO standard! :-) Every composer is different. I am curious that you refer to modernism as 'so-called'.  Modernism has

Contemporary bar layout [was Re: Horizontal spacing bug?]

On 4/10/2019 3:34 am, Aaron Hill wrote: How standardized is this so-called "modernist" music? Not in any way at all. There's no ISO standard! :-) Every composer is different. I am curious that you refer to modernism as 'so-called'.  Modernism has been a major art movement for over 100 year

Re: Horizontal spacing bug?

On 2019-10-03 8:53 am, Andrew Bernard wrote: Lilypond is heavily biased to Common Era music, and that's well and good and where it excels, but I think with the amount of contemporary modernist music being written people could be a bit more open to more contemporary techniques. How standardiz

Re: Horizontal spacing bug?

Hi David, I think this comment is somewhat glib. I'll start another thread to discuss it. But briefly, the colleague whose music I engrave writes very complex scores and his practice is to use 3cm = 1 second to indicate the flow of time to the performers as an extra axis of information. While I pe

Re: Horizontal spacing bug?

On Thu 03 Oct 2019 at 14:15:56 (+0200), Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote: > Please consider these two staves: > %%% [ … 26ll snipped … ] > fis es' c' d' fis } > \repeat percent 2 { > aes,! > -\tweak extra-offset #'(-2.05 . 3.5) > _\markup\with-color #red { > \with-dimensions-fro

Re: Horizontal spacing algorithm

On 26.08.19 09:56, Michael Gerdau wrote: Find attached my tests with the current (2 weeks old) git version. IMO the current version of Lilypond does not have most (if at all!) of the mentioned shortcomings, at least not at first glance. LOL ;-) Best, Simon ___

Re: Horizontal spacing algorithm

Looks good to me in 2.19.83 [current highest dev release not from git.] Andrew On 26/8/19 5:56 pm, Michael Gerdau wrote: Find attached my tests with the current (2 weeks old) git version. IMO the current version of Lilypond does not have most (if at all!) of the mentioned shortcomings, at leas

Re: Horizontal spacing algorithm

Am 26.08.19 um 09:56 schrieb Michael Gerdau: Anyway, have you actualliy tried the provided spacing examples given in the (old?) article with a current version of lilypond? Find attached my tests with the current (2 weeks old) git version. For those who don’t want to compile from git themselv

Re: Horizontal spacing algorithm

Hi Chad, FWIW I also had assumed you claimed such a change would be simple. Anyway, have you actualliy tried the provided spacing examples given in the (old?) article with a current version of lilypond? Find attached my tests with the current (2 weeks old) git version. IMO the current version of

Re: Horizontal spacing algorithm

Hi Simon, Hardly an assertion when I used brackets and a question mark around the word “simple”. Anyway, the paper points out that Lilypond uses a version of Gourlay’s algorithm which works great except in examples like the ones he gives (polyrhythms). I’m aware that you can use proportional notat

Re: Horizontal spacing algorithm

Hello Chad, I am not aware that we currently have any developer working on or familiar enough with that area of the source code. Also, the assertion that implementing this would be simple is audacious to say the least: Even looking only at the examples given in that paper, it is by no means a

Re: Horizontal spacing - How to prevent compressing while allowing stretching?

On Sun 09 Oct 2016 at 16:43:49 (-0700), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi Karol, > > By ‘natural’ are you referring to the spacing displayed when ragged-right > is set to true, or something else? > > As far as I know there is no parameter to enable what you want - stretch > but don’t compress. One of th

Re: Horizontal spacing - How to prevent compressing while allowing stretching?

Karol, On Sunday, October 9, 2016, Andrew Bernard [via Lilypond] < ml-node+s1069038n195252...@n5.nabble.com> wrote: > Hi Karol, > > By ‘natural’ are you referring to the spacing displayed when ragged-right > is set to true, or something else? > > As far as I know there is no parameter to enable w

Re: Horizontal spacing - How to prevent compressing while allowing stretching?

Hi Karol, By ‘natural’ are you referring to the spacing displayed when ragged-right is set to true, or something else? As far as I know there is no parameter to enable what you want - stretch but don’t compress. One of the major advantages and features of lilypond is it’s very smart and subtle sp

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

If you can't guess the name, here is a way to find it: lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x will print you a list of font families, font configs and font directories on your system. lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x 2>&1| grep family | sort | uniq will print only the families and their name in alp

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

Things are comming along. What i find is that some fonts simply does not work and thus activates the horrendous sans-serif thing. Thank you! Carl-Henrik > 14. feb. 2016 kl. 23.00 skrev Noeck : > > Hi Carl-Henrik, > > that's what I mean by figure out the correct font name. On lilybin, > thes

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

Hi Carl-Henrik, that's what I mean by figure out the correct font name. On lilybin, these two work for me: \override Lyrics.LyricText.font-name = "Palatino" \override Lyrics.LyricText.font-name = "Palatino Regular" Your name "Palatino-Regular" does not exist and then some ugly default sans-serif

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

Hi, It did something, but not what i expect. Cannot get it to conform to the font i wish. Running latest OS X and latest lily-stuff. http://lilybin.com/15a0y9/10 > 14. feb. 2016 kl. 22.05 skrev Carl-Henrik Buschmann : > > Joram, > > Thank you - will test. Sorr

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

Joram, Thank you - will test. Sorry to say your mail did not come to my mailbox, only in the digest. Will check my subscription settings. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

Hi Carl-Hendrik, please use the code I sent you, because it works here, I tested it. If you then want to put it elsewhere or change things, do it step by step to see which step fails. Does this minimal example work for you? { a a a a } \addlyrics { A B C D } \layout { \override Lyrics.LyricTe

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

No luck, at least on my system. Regardless of font, how to make the font size smaller? Carl-Henrik > 14. feb. 2016 kl. 20.27 skrev Simon Albrecht : > > On 14.02.2016 20:24, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: >> I tried this inside the lyrics, i dont see any change though: >> >> \override LyricText

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

On 14.02.2016 20:24, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: I tried this inside the lyrics, i dont see any change though: \override LyricText #'font-name = #Alegreya-Regular You need to give the font name as a string, in this case: \override LyricText.font-name = "Alegreya" (untested) HTH, Simon _

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

I tried this inside the lyrics, i dont see any change though: \override LyricText #'font-name = #Alegreya-Regular http://lilybin.com/15a0y9/8 (thought it does not compile in lilybin - it works fine on my mac). DRAWING blanks, again. Carl-Henrik > 14. feb. 2016 kl. 17.40 skrev Carl-Henrik Bus

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

> Fonts. I’ve tried looking in the manual but i shoot blanks: how do i change > the font and font size of the lyrics? This is rather well described here in the first chapter: 1.8.3 Musical notation > Text > Fonts http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/fonts For your case: \layout

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

quot;Simon Albrecht" Cc: "lilypond-user" Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 4:40 PM Subject: Re: Horizontal spacing - choir Thank you for the heads up. Will revise the dynamics, slurs and phrasings. Fonts. I’ve tried looking in the manual but i shoot blanks: how do i change the font

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

Thank you for the heads up. Will revise the dynamics, slurs and phrasings. Fonts. I’ve tried looking in the manual but i shoot blanks: how do i change the font and font size of the lyrics? > 14. feb. 2016 kl. 15.44 skrev Simon Albrecht : > > Hello, > > On 14.02.2016 12:58, Carl-Henrik Buschma

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

Hello, On 14.02.2016 12:58, Carl-Henrik Buschmann wrote: I need advice on how to best typeset my SATB score. The problem revolves around horizontal spacing. http://lilybin.com/15a0y9/2 I feel it is a bit cramped and the breaks do not flow naturally. I don’t think it’s cramped – well, I like

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

http://lilybin.com/15a0y9/6 Things are coming along quite nicely. Thank you for your suggestions. I'd appreciate any tips you all see to make this even more beautiful. > 14. feb. 2016 kl. 13.37 skrev Pierre Perol-Schneider > : > > With the same number of systems? > > \layout { >system-c

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

With the same number of systems? \layout { system-count = 18 \context { \Score \override LyricText #'font-size = #-1 } } If not fine, have you tried Joram's idea? 2016-02-14 13:22 GMT+01:00 Carl-Henrik Buschmann : > It definitly helps, but it still feels cramped. > > I u

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

It definitly helps, but it still feels cramped. I used: \context { \Score \override LyricText #'font-size = #-1 } > 14. feb. 2016 kl. 13.16 skrev Pierre Perol-Schneider > : > > Hi Carl-Henrik, > > How about a smaller font size for the lyrics? > > Cheers, > Pierre >

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

Dear Carl-Henrik, I would suggest to reduce the global staff size to 19. That gives you more space both vertically and horizontally. And I would remove your custom system-system-spacing as it makes it harder to recognize what belongs to which system. I don't know if that is an option for you. Che

Re: Horizontal spacing - choir

Hi Carl-Henrik, How about a smaller font size for the lyrics? Cheers, Pierre 2016-02-14 12:58 GMT+01:00 Carl-Henrik Buschmann : > Hey, > > I need advice on how to best typeset my SATB score. The problem revolves > around horizontal spacing. > > http://lilybin.com/15a0y9/2 > > I feel it is a bit

Re: Horizontal spacing at the left of each staff

2012/7/23 Thomas Baruchel : > On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Thomas Morley wrote: >> >> would be nice if you would post a _tiny_ example, which _compiles_ as >> it is to show the problem. > > > Here is the exact issue I encounter: see the ugly alterations at the left > edge > of each line (except the first o

Re: Horizontal spacing at the left of each staff

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Thomas Morley wrote: would be nice if you would post a _tiny_ example, which _compiles_ as it is to show the problem. Here is the exact issue I encounter: see the ugly alterations at the left edge of each line (except the first one, which is OK). I would like to have some e

Re: Horizontal spacing at the left of each staff

2012/7/23 Thomas Baruchel : >> Perhaps you wanted to remove the clef, too? > > > Sorry for not having been clear enough. Everything is OK for the first > line (where a key is printed). But after line breaks, on the beginning of > each new line, I have no clef, no bar, no time signature, and then >

Re: Horizontal spacing at the left of each staff

Perhaps you wanted to remove the clef, too? Sorry for not having been clear enough. Everything is OK for the first line (where a key is printed). But after line breaks, on the beginning of each new line, I have no clef, no bar, no time signature, and then the first note of the line should have s

Re: Horizontal spacing at the left of each staff

2012/7/23 Thomas Baruchel : > Hi, I removed many engravers with the code below, and now the first note > on each staff (at the left) is completely at the beginning of the staff > without any horizontal spacing before. How can I have some left indentation > INSIDE the staff. Regards. > > > \layout {

Re: Horizontal spacing at the left of each staff

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Thomas Baruchel wrote: without any horizontal spacing before. How can I have some left indentation INSIDE the staff. Regards. I just found the following thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-11/msg00290.html which tells about the line of code: \overr

Re: Horizontal spacing change between 2.15.9 and 2.15.10 (regression?)

Xavier Scheuer gmail.com> writes: > > I have a passage with many 32th notes (and subdivide beams). With > 2.15.5 (as well as with 2.14.2) LilyPond settles 2 measures per line, > but with 2.15.14 it puts only one measure per line and this measure is > really stretched horizontally (whereas it wa

Re: Horizontal spacing change between 2.15.9 and 2.15.10 (regression?)

Xavier Scheuer gmail.com> writes: > > I have a passage with many 32th notes (and subdivide beams). With > 2.15.5 (as well as with 2.14.2) LilyPond settles 2 measures per line, > but with 2.15.14 it puts only one measure per line and this measure is > really stretched horizontally (whereas it was

Re: horizontal spacing

2009/3/1 Grammostola Rosea : > Hi, > > Imho Lilypond uses to many bars on one 'row' in a-4 format. I got about 8 > bars (4/4), I prefer to have 4. Adding \paper { system-count=8 } works as another solution. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) The incredible carnival of Badajoz http://www.fli

RE: horizontal spacing

You've got the commands inside \midi. Move them to \layout: \layout { \context { \Score \override SpacingSpanner #'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 16) } } \midi { } Nick > -Original Message- > Subject: Re: horizontal spacing

Re: horizontal spacing

> Imho Lilypond uses to many bars on one 'row' in a-4 format. I > got about > 8 bars (4/4), I prefer to have 4. > I tried to use: > > \layout { } >   \midi { >     \context { >   \Score >    \override SpacingSpanner >     #'base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1 16) >

Re: horizontal spacing

The simplest is probably to insert some \break commands where you want line breaks. Then, LilyPond will stretch out the note spacing. If you want exactly 4 measures per line, you can even insert a parallel line of the form \repeat unfold 10 { s1*4 \break } (assuming that your score has 10*4=40 m

Re: horizontal spacing

Kieren, Without replacing my current version (version "2.10.0"), I got a pretty happy result.:handshake: (This image is shrunk again, intentionally). http://www.nabble.com/file/p12379280/lilypondex3.jpg I will have to get familiar with "ragged" and it's manifestations. Thank-you very kindl

RE: horizontal spacing

Ed, I haven't got to this point with the guitar yet but it looks delicious. Still this is one for an August "Ed Ardzinski" search in the near future here at Nabble/Lilypond. Thank-you very very much... Jay Peek Ed Ardzinski wrote: > > I'm sure there is a lot ways to get things stretched ou

Re: horizontal spacing

Hi Jay, Here is the exact code I entered (in Notepad): { \time 2/4 \clef bass c4 c g g a a g2 } Here is what I got: Considering that the picture shows a scale { c d e f g a b c }, something is definitely wrong! ;-) Try cutting and pasting this into Notepad and compiling:

Re: horizontal spacing

Hey Kieren, Below are two phases. One 'before' and one 'after.' One is what I want. The other is what I performed by copying and pasting the code (without any illustrative residue from the colors and graphics). I hope this helps.:working: >From 1/5th of the way down at http://lilypond.org/

Re: horizontal spacing

Hi Jay, Without sample code, it's very hard to diagnose your problem... But my first suggestion is to add the following line to your score file, right near the top (e.g., after the \version string): \paper { ragged-right = ##t } If that doesn't solve your problem, please post again, wit

RE: horizontal spacing

I'm sure there is a lot ways to get things stretched out. If you are using chord mode to get chord symbols to print, and the chord has a long name something like this can cause problems: c4:11+^7 c:11+^7 c:11+^7 c:11+^7 four quarter notes of a C add9/add#11... The engraver apparently tries

Re: Horizontal spacing

Yes, this is exactly what I need Thank you! Bert Mats Bengtsson írta: I'm not sure I understand. Do you want a layout where simultaneous notes in different staves don't necessarily have the same horizontal position? One trick you could do, is described in "Scaling durations". For example, you

Re: Horizontal spacing

I'm not sure I understand. Do you want a layout where simultaneous notes in different staves don't necessarily have the same horizontal position? One trick you could do, is described in "Scaling durations". For example, you can replace c4 d e f by c4*5/4 d4*3/4 e4 f /Mats Bertalan Fodor wrot

Re: Horizontal spacing [Was: Problems with polyphony (rests, dynamics, lyrics, tempo)]

Am Montag, 4. April 2005 23:35 schrieb Mats Bengtsson: > Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > >-) The spacing of the notes is very uneven (caused by diffferent lengths > > of the lyrics). See e.g. measure 46, which contains 4 eigth-notes, which > > are spaced very uneven. > > If you can show some examples o

Re: horizontal spacing with negative value?

Hello list, hello Han-Wen, You wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > My question: > > How is it possible to get this spacing with a negative value? > > > > ( #'padding = #-1 doesn't work. )-: > > > > Or isn't it possible? > > I think it's not possible. Unfortunately, the spacing engi

Re: Horizontal spacing between notes

> Hello, > > I've just started using Lilypond and I'm very impressed with this software. > > Is there a simple way to increase the horizontal spacing between two > notes? I have collisions between markup text above one note and a following > chord. > Best regards, > > Jurgen The best solution